Ever since Edward Snowden leaked information about massive government surveillance programs there has been a lot of news, debate, and controversy about the NSA and other government agencies in the US and abroad.

Google just gave you some new features in Gmail that add a level of functionality to email that makes it more than email. It's like they don't want you to go anywhere else but Google. Aw. Google likes me. It really, really likes me.

Digital security firm LastPass announced Thursday that it had discovered passwords, email addresses and other data linked to Adobe Systems (ADBE) customer accounts on websites used by hackers.LastPass says was able to identify user data from a staggering 152 million Adobe accounts. That would contradict Adobe’s claim -- ...

The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. According several researches the principal search engines index only a small portion of the overall web content, the remaining part is unknown to the majority ...

Last month, federal agents arrested a man for destruction of three different power lines and a terroristic attack against a railroad carrier. Next Next week, a key organization that helps maintain the grid and its physical and cyber security will perform a series of exercises to defend those ...

(Editor\\'s note: In this guest essay, Deloitte consultants Eric Openshaw and Irfan Saif assemble the best available estimates for the economic clout of the cybercrime industry.)No one knows the true cost of cybercrime. Annual loss estimates for U.S. corporations range from $70-140 billion in a recent report from ...

More than five billion people have Facebook accounts, and every single one of them is affected by Facebook\\'s new way to search the social network. The company rolled it out over the summer. It\\'s called Graph Search. It can help you find new friends, new businesses, but as ...

British lawmakers will question the editor of the Guardian newspaper next month over publishing intelligence files from U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden after warnings from security chiefs that the leaks damaged UK national security.Alan Rusbridger will appear before the House of Commons home affairs select committee, the ...

Adobe has a lot to answer for. We've gone from 3 million to 130 million to 150 million possible accounts hacked. It's all out there for everyone to see on the interwebs. Were it not twee software applications, we'd probably sense more outrage. Right now, it's hard to fathom what the deal is and how far this travesty goes.

Researcher Paul McMillan thinks the pharmacy may have been monitoring the computer activity of employees using the remote access program TeamViewer, but then failed to secure the application, allowing anyone else on the internet to view the employee computer screen as well. Contacted by WIRED, the customer said ...

It’s broken because security teams drive security, and development teams let them. There needs to be a re-balancing of this relationship, driven by an awakening in the developer community.Development teams abdicate security because they don’t understand it. They abdicate because they are too busy building features. They abdicate ...